Ship-protector.



Y s. BABINEC.

SHIP PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.6. 1917.

Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

f UDDDHUDDUDCIUHUGUEIDDDU 1] gvvuentoz v STEPHEN BABINEC, OF SHELBY,MICHIGAN.

SHIP-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

Application filed. August 6, 1917. Serial No. 184,664.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN BABINEC, a subject of the King of Hungary,residing at Shelby, in the county of Oceana and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ship-Protectors, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in shipprotectors.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a protector forships especially adapted for preventing injury thereto at pointsadjacent the water line from such projectiles as torpedoes, the devicebeing adapted for ready installation upon a ship and arranged so as notto impede the travel of the sh p through the water.

A further object of the device is to provide a substantially encirclingresilient protector for the hull of a vessel which will withstand theprojectiles as well as boats and other objects coming in contacttherewith.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of aninexpensive buii'er device adapted for attachment to ships covering anydesired portion of the hull thereof, the same being readily repairedwhen injured and adding strength and stability to the hull on which itis mounted.

In the drawing forming a part of this application and in which likereference characters designate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a ship provided with the present device.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken upon line IL-II of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail vertical sectional view through a portionof the device showing a torpedo in engagement therewith, and

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken upon line IV-IV of Fig. 3.

It will be understood that my invention is applicable to any form ofboat. and the same is herein illustrated as attached to the hull 10 of aship 11, the latter having a deck 12, cabin 13, wireless telegraphapparatus 14, and fines 15 while an operating propeller is illustratedat the stern of the hull as well as a rudder l7.

Broadly considered, the invention consists of a plurality of sectionalrails 18 resiliently supported in parallelism upon the hull 10 andsubstantially surrounding the hull adjacent the water line thereof.Resilient mounts 19 are provided for the rails 18, each consisting of abase or cup 20 adapted for attachment to the hull 10 by means of screws21 or similar devices and having caps 22 telescopically mounted upon thecups with springs 23 arranged therein and engaging both the cup and cap.Side slots 24 are arranged in each cup 20 within which ins 25 inwardlyprojecting from the cap 22 are slidably arranged while a stem 26 isaxially positioned Within the cap 22 having the spring 23 mountedthereover.

The rails 18 may be of any desired form but are herein illustrated asdiamond shaped in cross section with their sharpened edges 27 positionedoutwardly. It will be understood that the springs 23 normally maintainthe caps 22 projected, whereby the rails 18 are resiliently mounted uponthe hull 10.

Each of the rails 18 is formed in three sections, a stern section 28 andoppositely positioned similar side sections 29, the adjacent ends ofeach section being normally spaced apart, thereby permitting the freeindividual movement of each section inwardly toward the hull 10 when therail section is contacted from without.

Forward adjacent ends 30 of the rail section 29 are pointed asillustrated being arranged substantially forwardly of the prow 31 of thehull. With a plurality of the rails 18 arranged upon the hull 10 indifferent horizontal planes as hercin*illustrated in Fig. 1 it will beapparent that an oncoming missile such as a torpedo 32 will hit some ofthe rails 27 and by reason of the inclined sides thereof will bedeflected toward the passage between two adjacent rails as bestillustrated in Fig. 3 and by reason of the slight space between theadjacent rails the torpedo will be enabled to pass therebetween but willbe stopped in its travel and there held between the rails or permittedto drop downwardly in the water without contacting the hull.

It is obvious that any desired number of rails 18 may be employed whilethe rails are preferably at as well as above and below the normal waterline of the hull.

What I claim as new is In combination with a hull, aplurality. of a 5cups outwardly carried thereby, caps slidably arranged upon the saidcups, springs arranged between the said caps and cups and inclosedtherein, rails arranged inseetions cggigs 9; thl patent ma y be obtainedfor and carried by the outer ends of said caps with sharpened edgesoutwardly arranged, 10 the forward ends of adjacent sections of therails being pointed and arranged substantially forwardly of the bow ofthe hull.

In testimony whereof I afi ix my signature.

STEPHEN BABINEO.

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